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About

Hey, I'm Devin

8+ years building products at startups. Background, timeline, and how I think about product work.

2x founder. 13+ years building and scaling SaaS, marketplace, and data products — from $0→$10M ARR and 0→100K MAU. I find the root problem, strip the noise, and ship what moves the metric.

That same instinct led me to product. I joined Hone as the 6th employee and founding PM — owning design, analytics, PMM, and QA until Series B — and helped grow the product from $0 to $10M ARR across $52M in funding. Before that I launched Harley-Davidson's first mobile app — 100K MAU and 4.5+ stars 6 months post-GTM.

I'm most useful when the problem is ambiguous and the team is small. I started in data — healthcare products at McKesson and AmerisourceBergen through two acquisitions ($135M+ combined) — and still write SQL, design interfaces, and ship side projects. Understanding the craft makes me a better PM.

Values

First principles

Start from what's true, not what's familiar.

Small teams, big ownership

Flat structure, async by default. Revenue per employee, not employee count.

Ship to learn

Speed to insight over speed to output.

Craft matters

Taste is a product skill. Sweat the details users feel but can't articulate.

Default to transparent

Share context, not conclusions. Let the team think with you.

Simplicity wins

The best product has the fewest moving parts that still solve the problem.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Curiosity
Strength

I pull threads until I understand the system, not just the surface.

Resilience
Strength

Ambiguity and setbacks clarify priorities — they don't stall them.

Scrappiness
Strength

If I don't know it, I'll learn it. If it doesn't exist, I'll build it.

High agency
Strength

I don't wait for direction, resources, or perfect conditions to move.

Decisiveness
Strength

Walk through two-way doors. Do the diligence on one-way doors.

Self-awareness
Strength

Clear on what I'm great at, honest about what I'm not.

Optics
Weakness

I'd rather ship than present. Stakeholders sometimes hear about wins late.

Impatience
Weakness

I move fast and expect the same. Consensus-heavy teams can feel like friction.

Delegation
Weakness

I default to doing it myself when I should be enabling others.

Context switching
Weakness

High curiosity means I can chase too many threads at once.

Timeline

2009

West Virginia University

Entered for Forensics — the FBI collaboration, the crime labs, the science. Switched to Finance after a textbook marketplace I built on the side became more interesting than anything in the classroom. 3.7 GPA, Magna Cum Laude, Honors College.

2009

CollegeBookEvolution

Textbooks were a racket. Built a P2P marketplace to fix it — taught myself HTML, PHP, JS, and MySQL along the way. 2nd of 75 teams in business plan competition. Hooked.

2011

McKesson (acquired Medventive for $100M+)

Inherited a data process that took weeks. Taught myself C# and built one that took under 4 hours. It became the team standard. Deployed population health SaaS covering millions of lives across 40+ contracts.

2012

AmerisourceBergen (acquired IntrinsiQ for $35M)

600K+ patients. 7M+ drug events. Turned raw oncology data into products pharma companies paid for — 30%+ YoY revenue growth.

2014

Launch Theory

Started a product studio for founders who had conviction but no product. Helped one close a $7M Series B. Learned that the best early-stage work is killing bad ideas fast.

2017

Harley-Davidson

Riders didn't want turn-by-turn directions — they wanted to explore. That insight shaped everything. Launched H-D's first consumer apps. 100K MAU, 4.5+ stars, 6 months post-GTM.

2018

Pacific Digital Agency

Built a geo-targeting ad platform — +28% conversion rate. Learned that drive time matters more than miles away.

2019

Hone

Joined a 6-person startup as the only PM. Owned design, analytics, PMM, QA — whatever needed doing. $0 to $10M ARR, $52M raised.

2023

Recharging

Stepped away. Traveled abroad, ran marathons, welcomed two kids — Cole and Rowan.

2024

Goldcast

Came back as fractional Product Director. Two net-new products, $12K blended ACV expansion, $20-30B incremental TAM unlocked.

2025

Building in the open

Shipping side projects: Intervals, Opti AI, Vamos, PromptBinder, and more.

Where I've Been

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